Feb 28, 2002 - Sale 1926

Sale 1926 - Lot 285

Price Realized: $ 690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(JAZZ.) Pochonet, Gerard D. Group of 3 scrapbooks assembled by jazz drummer Pochonet, including a large number of photographs and newspaper clippings, illustrating his personal life and musical career. 4to, various bindings. Vp, vd

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Covers the period of the 1930s to 1950s, with various photos of Pochonet with his own as well as other groups (including an early photo of Louis Armstrong). Includes programs from the Hot Club of Paris, record labels from vintage 78 rpm recordings on which he played, etc. Taken together, the scrapbooks provide a visual autobiography of a drummer who played with many of the jazz greats of his period.<